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Fish Gills

Fish Gills

Fish have to swim but they must breathe too. Unlike land vertebrates or marine mammals, they don't have lungs, but they do have paired respiratory structures called gills, also called branchia. The photomicrograph above illustrates a stained thin section of fish gill imaged using phase contrast optics.

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